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Pacino says he didn't want to meet Spector

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Al Pacino says he decided not to meet famed record
producer Phil Spector before portraying him in an HBO movie — only to find he
already had.

A friend showed Pacino a 20-year-old photo in which the actor was standing
next to Spector. Pacino said Friday he has no memory of the moment.

The movie, "Phil Spector," debuts in March. It focuses on the client-attorney
relationship between Spector and Linda Kenney Baden, who represented him in his
first trial on charges that he murdered actress Lana Clarkson. That ended in a
mistrial, but Spector was convicted in a second trial and is now in prison.

Pacino says he didn't want to meet Spector in prison because he'd be a
different man than the one Pacino is portraying, who hadn't yet been
convicted.